bank of america; right, john? they would never permit this kind of incoherence in what the policy is, what they are going to take in and what they will spend. >> question about this topic, based on your reporting, what you learned, how far is the president willing to go on entitlement cuts? >> when i talked to the president in the summer on this, he acknowledged it was bad policy for he and democrats to cut medical beneficiaries. he then went on, and, you know, i think in the end, you can't be president and not be a realist, and he said that it is untanble to not cut them because they are driving the budget deficit, and, you know, the whole entitlement issues, the real core of the problem, the taxing issue, yes, the pyrotechnics, and its -- there's the struggle between the republican and democratic view, but all the numbers people know that it's the entitlement issue so if there's a fix, trajectory to make it somehow stable, that would be -- that's the relation. uh-oh, you have something from the book. >> your boo